Consulting Firm — Data Strategy & Digital Transformation

Your data is an Asset. We govern it like your Estate.

KML Evolutions supports the strategic IT plans of SMBs and large enterprises.

In a world moving ever faster on the strength of its data, mastering data governance is the true engine of operational performance — and the guarantee of your digital sovereignty.

=> Data Governance, IT Project Leadership, and Operational Efficiency, with the rigor of a senior consultant who has led these programs from the inside.

35 years of Retail & Data expertise within Europe's largest retail groups
+20 years of contribution to international GS1 standards (since 2004), co-chairing a GDSN committee
2005  Pioneer in Retail Digitalization through the Automation of Data Collection and Synchronization with the internal Information System.
30 Projects led each year at Système U's IT organization, with 12 business project managers
+15 M€ in savings generated by the MDM programs led at Cora France (Louis Delhaize group)

Our expertise

Four levers, one single goal: performance

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Digital & Data Transformation

Strategic roadmap development and leadership of large-scale information systems Projects, including in the most sensitive contexts: technical debt, mergers, acquisitions, retail banner consolidations.

  • Roadmap
  • IT Cutover
  • Data Migration
  • Technical Obsolescence
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Operational Efficiency

Optimizing the data processing chain, from collection to exploitation, to deliver massive, measurable productivity gains — right where your business teams operate.

  • Product Listing
  • Supply Chain
  • Procurement
  • Marketing
  • Management Control
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Change Management

Coaching for leadership teams and training for operational teams, so the transformation outlives the consultant's departure — and becomes your culture.

  • Executive Coaching
  • Training
  • Knowledge Transfer

Our conviction: data and AI

Our conviction

« AI is only as good as your data. »

Organizations are investing massively in artificial intelligence. But a model fed with unreliable data (inconsistent, duplicated, or outdated) produces mediocre — and potentially misleading — results. Establishing data governance is essential for AI to deliver meaningful results. That is the foundation we build with you: before, during, and after your AI projects.

Unified master dataA single version of the truth for your products, suppliers, and structures.
Measured qualityCompleteness and reliability indicators tracked like business KPIs.
International standardsGS1 interoperability to communicate with your entire ecosystem.

Our approach

Evolve without disruption, from assessment to handover

  1. Assessment

    A full review of your data, systems, and processes. Identification of risks and quick wins.

  2. Roadmap

    A prioritized trajectory, documented trade-offs, a quantified business case. You decide with full visibility.

  3. Delivery

    Hands-on project leadership: steering committees, vendors, cutovers. We hold the Course to hit the target: quality / cost / schedule.

  4. Handover

    Training and coaching for your teams to make the transformation last. Structured transfer of knowledge and skills.
    Our success: your autonomy.

Ménouar LOUNES, founder of KML Evolutions
Ménouar LOUNES Founder — Senior Advisor

The firm

Business insight forged in the field, at the highest level

A former master data project director reporting to the transformation executive leadership of the Carrefour group and Cora France, Ménouar LOUNES has led some of the most complex data programs in European retail: migrating Cora & Match stores onto Carrefour's systems, governing the Louis Delhaize group's master data repositories, and MDM programs delivering over €15M in savings.

Retailer representative to GS1 France since 2004 and co-chair of the standardization and electronic catalog committee, he combines a rare business perspective with cutting-edge technological mastery — PIM, DAM, MDM, ERP, agile methods.

A former elite handball player and multiple-time marathon runner, he now brings that culture of results and teamwork to your most strategic challenges.

One firm, a network of experts

Every engagement is led personally by Ménouar LOUNES. Depending on your context, he brings in senior practitioners from his network — data, supply chain, change management — to cover every dimension of the program.

A career at the heart of European retail

  • Master Data Project Leadership · 2024-2026
  • Head of Master Data · 2021-2024
  • Commerce Project Leadership · 2017
  • Master Data Management · 2002-2017
  • Retailer Representative · since 2004

Contact

Let's talk about your challenges

A 30-minute conversation is often enough to identify the first lever. No commitment required.

Or directly: [email protected] · +33 6 03 54 19 65

Based in Paris (Île-de-France) — engagements across France and the Maghreb.
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